New partnership to enhance spatial data quality

12 July 2007, 11:41am

1Spatial and Infotech Enterprises announce an innovative partnership to provide a data quality solution for repurposing spatial data.

The two companies are focussing on a solution to deliver greater accuracy and efficiency through automated quality checking and auditing using automated tools to speed up the delivery of re-engineered spatial data sets. A wide range of organisations are expected to benefit from this combination of technology and expertise: government departments; utilities and telecoms, all who have to repurpose their data to make it fit for purpose

As one of the market leaders in this space, Infotech will be making use of 1Spatial’s groundbreaking approach to spatial data quality management. Infotech will be using Radius Studio, a rules-based spatial data processing environment. It offers rules-based processing to ensure spatial data quality in update processes is managed, including validation and cleaning of existing data, the validation and committal of batches of detected changes (local and remote) and data conflation. Radius Studio also offers a rule discovery element and rules repository both accessible as web components.

Radius Studio can be used to provide quantitative data quality analysis by measuring the degree of conformance of spatial data to a rules-base. A data store can be processed and a report generated with results of the conformance test at both a summary and individual feature level. The summary reports the proportion of compliant objects and then offers a fix-up capability where appropriate. It offers iterative and ongoing maintenance for spatial data quality management.

Ram Mohan, President, UTG Division, Infotech Enterprises commented:

“As an organisation that processes and manages massive amounts of spatial data, we are constantly looking for partners and solutions that can help us be more productive and cost effective for our clients. We are delighted to be working with 1Spatial and see the deployment of their tools as a significant opportunity to achieve these goals, while also ensuring data quality is accorded the importance within organisations that it should have.”

Mike Sanderson, CEO, 1Spatial added:

“I am delighted that Infotech has chosen to deploy 1Spatial tools to support their business model. The objective of both companies is to continually improve the response to our joint customers; this partnership will enable our customers to repurpose their data in a way that meets their specific needs. I am really looking forward to pushing back the current boundaries of delivering spatial data based on ISO19113/4 standards.”

1Spatial and Infotech Enterprises both work according to ISO 19114:2003 which provides a framework of procedures for determining and evaluating quality that is applicable to digital geographic datasets, consistent with the data quality principles defined in ISO 19113.

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